Tribulation of Myriad Races

Su Yu was unaware of what the Heavenly Hunt Pavilion was planning, nor was he interested. The safe houses he had prepared beforehand had been decently helpful. He was currently hiding in one such safe house.

Outside, the signboard indicated that a resident was occupying the building. He wasn’t officially a resident yet, but he had prepared dozens of similar safe houses before the auction.

“Those fellows will discover something sooner or later. After they realize that I can control death qi, they will start guessing that I can disguise myself as death spirits as well. And as someone capable of controlling death qi, it won’t be too surprising for me to have the ability to draw on those signboards myself…”

The biggest sign of someone being a resident was the signboard with their portrait in front of their residence. Those experts were still busy searching for him among the death spirits, but that wouldn’t last for long. At that point, they would start searching the buildings. Fortunately, there were a lot of buildings in the city as well. It also wasn’t realistic for them to break into every single building during their search. That should delay them for a bit.

Inside the building.

Su Yu was still quite calm. It was very important to stay calm during moments like this. It wasn’t like he didn’t have any other backup plans. What was there to worry about? He was already a veteran at creating trouble in ancient cities. Right at that moment, a rumble rang out from a building nearby. Next, numerous death spirits appeared. What followed was the sound of someone cursing.

“You! You from Great Ming! Zhu Guangshen, that must be you!”

Meanwhile, Zhu Guangshen had a helpless expression as he looked at the tide of ants crawling all over. He said, “This has nothing to do with me! I reckon this is Su Yu! He must have nurtured some sky devouring ants during his time in Great Ming!”

That explosion earlier had killed countless ants. And each ant was considered a living being as well. Thus, thousands of new death spirits had appeared instantly. Sure, they weren’t strong. But the sheer number of them made them incredibly annoying. It was understandable why Zhan Wushuang and the others would be furious.

Holy shit!

What were they supposed to do now? Earlier, they could still search the death spirits one by one. But thousands of new death spirits had appeared. And they didn’t even know if Su Yu had more of such tricks hidden in the city.

One could only say that they were newbies at this game involving ancient cities while Su Yu was an expert gamer. Just look at how he was effortlessly playing around with them.

Yes. In ancient cities, the person dying didn’t matter. As long as it was a living being, death spirits would appear with each kill. And ants…naturally counted as living beings as well.

Su Yu had only thought of this idea when he saw Zhu Guangshen in the city. He had brought some sky devouring ant eggs with him when he left Great Ming. This action of his had broadened numerous horizons.

Even Zhu Guangshen was inspired. Thus, he started stealthily tossing even more sky devouring ants toward the surrounding empty buildings. What a genius idea. Why hadn’t he thought of this?

What was the point of carrying so many ants on him if he couldn’t even think of such an idea? If he had known this earlier, he would have brought hundreds of thousands of ants with him. Wouldn’t that be enough to spawn hundreds of thousands of death spirits in the city?

That was such a terrifying thought. At this point, the city was slowly turning into a city of the dead. Most of the death spirits were weak, but if they kept failing to kill the culprits who had been taking lives in the city, stronger death spirits would start appearing.

Furthermore, with the continuous increase in death qi density, it was only a matter of time before these people were forced to take shelter indoors. And that would provide Su Yu with an opening to escape.

Zhu Guangshen could roughly guess what Su Yu was planning. The other Sunmoons reached the same conclusion as well. They frowned in annoyance.

Holy shit!

None of them had ever thought of killing ants in ancient cities. Who would waste their time thinking about something like that? Some of them even wondered if they should start carrying more tiny living beings with them in the future.

Naturally, only those holding a grudge toward the world and society would consider doing something like this. A normal person would not be interested in doing this.

Rumble!

Yet another explosion erupted, and thousands of new death spirits appeared. Zhu Guangshen looked astonished. Inwardly, he was grumbling. Yes, he was the one who had tossed the ants out, but he wasn’t the one who had killed them. The ants had exploded by themselves. This had nothing to do with him.

“Damn it!”

One of the Sunmoons cursed. A few more thousand of death spirits had appeared. If this continued, the number of death spirits would go over ten thousand. At that point, the density of death qi would be high enough that stronger death spirits would start appearing.

***

Inside an ancient building.

Su Yu was attentively listening to the sounds outside. A second explosion could be heard, adding numerous death spirits to the city. The death qi also rose to a terrifying level of density. Su Yu was quite surprised. What was going on?

That wasn’t him!

“Could it be…Zhu Guangshen?”

Yeah. That was the only possibility. Su Yu laughed in amusement. This prince of the Zhu Family was quite a devious one. This wasn’t a bad thing for him. He didn’t have that many ants on him, and ants were the perfect targets to kill when one wanted to sow chaos in ancient cities.

If he had known earlier that he could do this as well, he would have brought millions of ants with him here. What a pity that he only had that single hive with him.

Fortunately, Zhu Guangshen was here to lend him a hand and add a few thousand death spirits on top of what he spawned during the first explosion. Let’s see how these people were going to search all these death spirits when there were so many of them.

“This incident might have alerted some Invincibles as well. They didn’t enter the city during the previous incident, but that might change.”

Su Yu decided that he had to leave before any Invincible arrived. It was either that or hide somewhere capable of hiding him from the direct gaze of any Invincible. A glance was all an Invincible needed to see through his disguise.

Once again, his focus went to the little furball who was sneakily eating the newly received willpower he had received as heavenly reward after killing Tianduo. Would this fellow’s dada really descend if this fellow ended up dead?

Would that dada go crazy upon seeing the divine and devil Invincibles and kill them all? That would make things a lot more interesting.

Of course, that would probably only be possible if the enemy Invincibles were cultural researchers. Yes, warriors had seas of willpower as well, but they relied more on their bodies. Would the big furball be capable of killing warrior Invincibles?

Inside Su Yu’s sea of willpower, the little furball was happily feasting on the clump of willpower when his entire body shivered. He seemed to have sensed someone thinking maliciously about him. Was Yummy thinking of squeezing him to death again?

Was he going to be a dead ball? Whatever. He would finish his meal before worrying about anything else. This time, he was no longer trying to be sneaky about it. After all, Yummy was the one thinking maliciously about him first.

Su Yu rolled his eyes and said, “Why is your appetite still so good? Both of us could very well die here.”

Then again, this was a crisis he had seen coming. How could he earn so much heavenearth profound light so easily? Little did he know, some people had indeed profited from this in an incredibly easy manner.

After thinking for a bit, he opened the door slightly. He turned into a death spirit and started moving toward one of the openings connected to the moat.

Right at that moment, a black dragon abruptly soared into the sky above the mayor’s residence and announced, “I forgot to tell everyone that when the city is sealed, only the gates will be shut. The connecting points between the city and the moat will remain. But the death qi there is so thick not even Sunmoons can go through those openings.”

But that did not mean that nobody would be able to go through them. The moment that announcement was made, several Sunmoons started rushing toward the city walls. It was very obvious what was happening. They were preventing any escape through the moat.

Su Yu stopped and looked at the black dragon who was descending from the sky. Very well. He had not imagined that the mayor would actually think of this and remind everyone about it. In that case, he could no longer use the moat.

“Fine.”

Su Yu clenched his teeth. Fine, fine. Since the mayor wanted to play it this way, he would become a resident and turn into a long-term thorn in the mayor’s side. Life would actually be easier for the mayor with his departure. But since he was staying as a resident, the mayor would no longer know peace.

***

Outside.

Zhu Guangshen and Qin Hao were having a small meeting.

Qin Hao asked through voice transmission, “Does he still have any of those teleportation talismans?”

“It won’t work. The experts outside have probably surrounded the city.”

Zhu Guangshen sighed, “There are quite a lot of divine and devil experts on Ninestar Island. There is no doubt that the city is already surrounded.”

Thus, it was very unlikely that Su Yu would be able to flee this time. Due to the large number of death spirits, it would be hard for the people in the city to find him. But the city wasn’t endless. With so many Sunmoons, it was only a matter of time before Su Yu was found. Was his disguise so good that he was completely the same as a regular death spirit?

That was not necessarily true. Thus, they only needed to surround the city to prevent his escape. A large number of Sunmoons would continue watching the city until Su Yu’s death. The only alternative they would accept was his conversion into a resident. But that would signify an even bigger problem for Su Yu.

Then again, how did he manage to accomplish this? A lot of people were still feeling doubtful about his ability to hide among death spirits.

Qin Fang couldn’t help muttering, “That fellow is too crazy. And greedy. How did he come up with a plan to carry out such a massive scam?”

The scam was so big that not even Qin Fang himself would dare to consider doing so. As far as he was concerned, not even his entire family was worth that much, excluding his grandfather. His family would only be worth that much once his grandfather, an Invincible, was included.

Zhu Guangshen had nothing to say. How was he supposed to know? He didn’t even know Su Yu that well. But that fellow was definitely in big trouble this time.

Zhu Guangshen said, “Maybe we can try killing the Sunmoon death spirits and cause some late-stage Sunmoon death spirits to appear. That will keep everyone busy and create more opportunities for him…”

But doing that would also place them in a much higher level of danger. The Sunmoons who had initially not bothered to make things difficult for them might get infuriated and decide to join hands to kill them instead.

Since the two were quite strong as well, the other Sunmoons had refrained from doing something so troublesome for now. But that would change if they angered everyone in the city. As long as there were enough of them, they didn’t even need to worry about Great Qin King too much. Would Great Qin King go against all these top races just for a single death?

The divines and devils would be more than happy to see that happen. That would invite destruction to the human race. Qin Hao said nothing. That was something they would do only if they had absolutely no other option. For now, they should avoid provoking the neutral races.